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Friday, 28 December 2012

It is my turn (Georgina) for this weeks Friday Project. The card I have for you has a Spring feeling, with bright colours and flowers. A nice change from all those Christmas cards we have all been making recently. I have tried something different for this card by stamping the Daisy Pitcher image onto the pattern paper and then colouring rather than onto white card.

Friday, 21 December 2012

Welcome to another Friday Little Claire Blog Project - this week it's my turn (Helen N) to share a project with you and I've chosen a very simple treat box. It would work for any time of year but is perfect for last minute Christmas gifts and is very simple to make.

1. Score and fold the red Bazzill in to nine equal sections as shown in the photo. A little tip - if you don't have a score board big enough for this (mine is A4) size, you can use a 12 by 12 paper trimmer instead. Lift the blade away from the card and then score along the indent in the base using an embossing tool - this also makes it easy to measure your card.

2. Next, starting from each corner of the square in the middle of the sheet, score outwards to the four corners of the sheet. Mountain fold these score lines as shown in the photo.

3. Next you need to decorate the box. I've kept mine very simple but you could add lots more to yours if you want to.

I cut four squares of green card slightly smaller than the square panels on my box and then attached a piece of patterned paper to each of the green squares (as shown in the photo above).

4. I stamped the sleigh image (in Memento) and words from the stamp set (in Versafine), die cut it into a circle and coloured with Promarkers

Then I attached the circle and scalloped circle together and matted on to one of the patterned paper panels.

5. Open the red card out and attach the square panels as shown. A little tip - before sticking the image panel in place, fold up the box to make sure the image and words are the right way up.

6. Next use a single hole punch to put holes in each of the triangle panels as shown - to make sure the holes are even, pinch the triangles together and punch through both together. Here's a close up of one of the corners:

7. Fold up the box and thread ribbon through the holes to hold it all together

Keep pulling gently on the ribbon until the box looks a similar shape to this (overhead view)

Finally tie the ribbon in a bow.

Hope you like this project - please leave me a comment to let me know what you think.

Happy Christmas from me and the rest of the Design Team - hope you all have a wonderful and peaceful holiday.

Now to our Top Three entries, that have used a Little Claire images/stamps on their makes.

Andrea # 102Sazzle # 176Sparkly Fairy # 225

Thanks for joining in our challenge ladies, please feel free to take the blinkie from the side-bar and show it off on your blogs.

Our challenge for December is 'Happy New Year'. The Design Team have come up with various cards etc., if youl would like to enter our challenge, please read the instructions below and add your entries to the linky below so that we can come and see what you have made.﻿

Our prize for this month's challenge is a Little Claire Voucher to the value of £15.00 to spend on-line.

Thanks for sharing these lovely cards and we hope your ladies had a great time - if you live near the West Midlands and would be interested in attending any of Lyndsey's classes please get in touch and we can ask Lyndsey to contact you.

How cold is it here in the UK today? My fingers are freezing typing this and here is what I saw out of the window this morning:

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas............. we have seen some beautiful sights today, white trees & fields, glad to be inside in the warm now though!Little Claire x

Monday, 10 December 2012

One from Helen N, a lovely card made using lots of the elements within the set, the two doggies facing each other have worked really well and we like the elements laid out in a row, everything you see on this card (and more) are in this super DL set of stamps......

designed by Helen N

This next card from Heidi has made good use of the smaller row of Daschunds included within the set, they

designed by Heidi

have made a border feature around the circular sentiment also in the pack, love the colours!

Next we have a lovely card with a fresh spring feel from Gemma, green and white always seem such a clean combination:

designed by Gemma

We like this card from Donna, the image you see on the right (butterfly Daschund) closes in and the left panel
folds down to sit on top:

designed by Donna

And finally from Lyndsey a strking red and blue card, fabulous layout, and clever use of shading for the sky background behind Daschund:

designed by Lyndsey

So that's our club stamp set for December - December already? Hard to believe, and a quick note to all of our club members; we will be sending out the January packs from next week, this is to avoid delays with the Christmas and New Year holidays, we don't want you to be waiting into the New Year for your packs and you will have a nice new pack to play with over the holiday period - perfect x

Friday, 7 December 2012

Morning, tis my turn - Gaynor for the weekly Friday Blog Project from Little Claire. Christmas is a coming................the project I have designed for today pretty much sums up the season for me...........the colours, the glitter, thoughts of the countryside, the wider world, having the opportunity to get outside over the winter break..........taking time to appreciate just how good things really are...........and I am very grateful.

Stamp and colour images. Cut out separate little owls to add as an embellishment later.

The card is not a quickie design................but perhaps a special card for a special person or persons.......I have adapted this design into an Anniversary Card for my parents who are celebrating their 55th Wedding Anniversary on December 21st.................Many congratulations Mum and Dad :)

Thank you for taking the time to check out my weekly project for Little Claire.

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